We thought we saw it all on YouTube but no. The app is constantly evolving and introduces new features relatively often. It is worth noting that many of them make major breakthroughs as the core of the platform is preserved, but some less interesting features are introduced. And like others, I may try them earlier.
Actually, You can also get these features in advance. Anyone with YouTube Premium has access to these features, so you don’t have to be a bigot for YouTube to notice you.
These are YouTube’s experimental functions for ‘premium’.
A few years ago, YouTube’s experimental features were publicly available. But, Being a YouTube Premium subscriber is now a basic requirement. We remember that this is the platform’s payment method, in addition to allowing you to download videos, consume them in the background and other benefits.
But beware, it’s not enough to subscribe to ‘premium’ to be able to test the functions YouTube is testing, we must also we aim to get such functions. For this you need to open the YouTube app on your mobile phone, click on your photo and go to the ‘Your Premium benefits’ section. Here you should write ‘Try new functions’ and Go by ticking each experimental test individually.
These functions are usually Functions coming to the app either as a novelty for ‘premium’ subscribers or officially for everyone. And as the “experimental” name suggests, they don’t always arrive. Sometimes functions may take years to implement, or there may be functions that cannot directly exceed the scale of YouTube and fall into the trash. Similarly, not every new thing coming to YouTube has been an experimental feature before.
A last example of experimental function We have the possibility to zoom the videos as if they were a photo. Months later, this functionality reached all users, including those who did not pay subscriptions.
We should also say there are not always experimental functions to test, so it’s convenient to scroll through the aforementioned section of the YouTube app and see if there’s any news. In some cases there is a deadline to sign up so we have to be quick to not be left out.
YouTube beta on Google Play is also waiting for news
Since 2018 YouTube has a beta version on Google Play. this includes innovations close to being consistently launched, but there is also the possibility that it will eventually be discarded. Another important note is that the experimental functions we mentioned earlier don’t appear here until their arrival is close.
For sign up for youtube beta You must access this link to become a beta tester. Once accepted, you will receive an update of the app, which will now be in beta on Google Play in a few minutes. However, you will always be in beta and will receive updates from Google Play as if it were any other app (it really is).
If you want exit this beta program simply uninstall the app and reinstall YouTube from Google Play. Considering that, this is essential. betas can be unstable and make your YouTube experience worse. If you want to go back to beta later, you should follow the process mentioned above because there is no limit on registration and deletion at the moment, so you can change it according to your interests.
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